Palgrave Macmillan presents:
Nietzsche and Suffered Social Histories
Genealogy and Convalescence
by
Jeffrey M.
This book presents a reading of
Nietzsche as a thinker of the suffered social histories of subjectivity.
It suggests that Nietzsche’s concept of genealogy needs the concept of
convalescence to be coherent. Genealogy is a form of reflection that traces the
suffered scenes of which that reflection is symptomatic, whereas convalescence
is the ordeal of reflection’s coming to bear its limits within scenes of
embodied suffering. This theme is developed by appeals to Freud’s notion
of mourning and the object relations theories of Melanie Klein and D.W.
Winnicott, which insist on the primacy of suffered relationality in the genesis
of subjectivity. Moreover, Adorno’s notion of negative dialectics and its
emphasis on the primacy of the object are suggested as an alternative context
within which to read Nietzsche’s writing, in contrast with dominant modes of
criticism. The discussion will appeal to anyone interested in Nietzsche,
critical theory and the relationship between psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Jeffrey M. Jackson is Associate
Professor of Philosophy and Chair or the Department of Social Sciences at the
University of Houston—Downtown, USA. He is the author of Philosophy and Working-through the Past: A
Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies.
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